The money slider digs into your belief system about the just distribution of goods

so that's what everyone was complaining about? how? that'Å¾s the only thing of the economics questions i actually fully understood both the meaning and purpose!

@ChineseToTheBone
would that matter anyway? logic says you might not even ever meet in your life that person, and as such yor choice still won't influence your life, though it will his.
now if you KNEW that person, that would be different.

That is exactly why it matters, since it is proposing a hypothetic scenario rather than this survey being that scenario itself. I did not get any money out of this since everything was make believe, but if that scenario were to actually happen, then there would be a significant chance for me to come into contact with the other person under the typical setting for which that experiment would occur at.

it does say that the other person is a complete stranger though, i don't remember the exact woring, but i'm pretty sure that means you've never ever met said person and probably never will, what the question is trying to make you answer is not what would you do based on the person, think of it more like this: you can(and have to) divide you money between you and a time capsule, which will 100% have someone open it, but that person is random, though it will never be someone you know or may be even remotely related to, and you will not know them in your lifetime, you also won't be able to come back to said time box or the people who gave you the money and obliged you to put in there while also keeping part of it"
that's the scenario the question tries to give, but while still giving a more realistic scenario, which is still fairly unrealistic and possibly even less relatable.
what the questioner is interested to is not your behaviour based on indivual or possible events, but on how you would divide your goods with those of others, be it whoever in the world and time.

Survey end

Hey everyone! We just wanted to thank everyone who took part
in our survey. Your response was fantastic and we are really keen on analysing
all of the data. We have now closed the survey and we wonÃ­t be collecting any
more responses. We should be contacting the winners of our lottery very soon.
Keep checking your emails as you may be rewarded with a book of your choice
from our universityÃ­s bookstore. Once again, thank you for your support. Stay
tuned for more information about our work.

Hey everyone! We just wanted to thank everyone who took part
in our survey. Your response was fantastic and we are really keen on analysing
all of the data. We have now closed the survey and we wonÃ­t be collecting any
more responses. We should be contacting the winners of our lottery very soon.
Keep checking your emails as you may be rewarded with a book of your choice
from our universityÃ­s bookstore. Once again, thank you for your support. Stay
tuned for more information about our work.

Please do note hesitate to contact me at L.Walasek at
warwick.ac.uk

Hope you managed to gather enough samples for a proper analysis .
If you still remember it would be nice to hear of the results when you have some. Bet some other people here would be interested to hear them as well.

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